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Company Overview of Sequoia Capital

Company Overview

Sequoia Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start-up, early, and growth, emerging growth, mature, mid-venture, late-venture, and PIPE investments in private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology. Within energy, the firm invests in alternative energy, conventional energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, and energy services markets. Within financials and financial services, it invests in banking, brokerage, payments, and enabling technologies. Within healthcare and healthcare se...

Sequoia Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start-up, early, and growth, emerging growth, mature, mid-venture, late-venture, and PIPE investments in private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology. Within energy, the firm invests in alternative energy, conventional energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, and energy services markets. Within financials and financial services, it invests in banking, brokerage, payments, and enabling technologies. Within healthcare and healthcare services, the firm invests across diagnostic services, genetics services, healthcare IT, pharmaceuticals, lab services, patient services, product development services, and enabling technology companies. Within Internet, it invests in advertising, communications, e-commerce, gaming, media, search, social networking, and enabling technology companies. Within the mobile sector, the firm invests in advertising, applications, communication devices, gaming, mobile internet, devices, monetization and enabling technology. Within outsourcing, it invests across business process outsourcing, hosting services, managed services, professional services and software development services. Within technology, the firm invests in semiconductor, carrier infrastructure, data, enterprise infrastructure, open source, systems, software, storage, security, cloud computing, SAAS, and services companies. It also invests in optical components; analog and mixed signal; personal computers and accessories; multimedia devices, optical storage systems; Wireless Infrastructure; network administration; software development; networking services; internet security software; consumer staples; online hobbies, games and toy retail; diversified support services; materials; subsystems, and communication systems; and consumer services. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States for early and seed stage investments. However, for growth stage investments, it does not limit its investments to any country. It also invests in California, China, India, Israel, and Europe. The firm also seeks to invest in South America. It typically invests between $0.05 million and $200 million. The firm invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed stage, between $1 million and $10 million in early stage, and between $10 million and $100 million in growth stage. The firm prefers to be the first investor and business partner in a growth stage company. It usually takes a minority stake in its companies. Sequoia Capital was founded in 1972 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China, and Hong Kong.

Sequoia Capital Key Developments

Road Runnr Plans To Raise Funds

Jun 17 15

Carthero Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Bengaluru based hyper local delivery startup, is planning to raise about INR 10 million in its first round of funding and is in advanced stages of talks with Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners for the fund raise.

Wonderchef In Talks With Three Private Equity Funds

Jun 2 15

Wonderchef Home Appliances Pvt. Ltd. is in talks with three private equity funds to raise INR 900 million, three people aware of the development said. The funds include Sequoia Capital, Capvent and Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited (BSE:532892). “The company has received term sheets from three funds—Sequoia Capital, Capvent India Advisors and Motilal Oswal Private Equity. Final discussions are on and the deal should be closed soon,” said the first of the three persons cited above, requesting anonymity.

Rocket Internet Rocket Reportedly Bids To Acquire TinyOwl

Mar 16 15

Rocket Internet AG (XTRA:RKET) is learnt to have made a bid to acquire Sequoia Capital TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd albeit without success.

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